Manuel Vicente Maza

Manuel Vicente Maza (1779-27 June 1839) was Governor of Buenos Aires from 27 June 1834 to 7 June 1835, succeeding Juan Jose Viamonte and preceding Juan Manuel de Rosas.

Biography
Manuel Vicente Maza was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1779, and he joined the Argentine patriotic cause during the Argentine War of Independence, being imprisoned by the Spanish royalists until 1815. In 1816, he became Mayor of Buenos Aires, and he became close friends with Juan Manuel de Rosas over the following years. He was exiled in 1829 for taking part in an uprising against Juan Lavalle, but he returned to power alongside Rosas and helped to overthrow Juan Ramon Balcarce before serving as interim Governor of Buenos Aires from 1834 to 1835. In 1835, after Facundo Quiroga's assassination, Maza was forced to resign, and, in 1839, he was assassinated at his office by Rosas' Mazorca secret police after he was discovered to have helped Lavalle in an attempted coup against Rosas.